Artist Statement

In 2006, I was traveling through France and found brilliantly colored, printed "visual aides" at a flea market. Originally, these visual aides were didactic drawings used in classrooms in the late 1950s to illustrate different aspects of the world, farming, industry and the natural world, for children. I scanned and reproduced these images on watercolor paper and updated them to reflect current events that relate to the state of our environment and how humans anthropomorphize the planet. The chosen events were inserted into the drawings using a style similar to that of the original works, so the completed image is a "Where's Waldo" of what has evolved and devolved environmentally and socially since the 1950s. Collectively, the works introduce contemporary issues and ideals into a 1950s world view, creating a sometimes satirical, but persistently critical look into to our collective past and future.

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

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Carrie Marill

Carrie
Marill
was
born
in
San
Francisco,
CA,
in
1976.
She
graduated
from
San
Francisco
State
University
in
2002
with
a
BA
in
painting
and
received
an
MFA
in
painting
from
Cornell
University
in
2004.
Her
work
has
been
exhibited
throughout
the
United
States
in
California,
New
York,
Seattle,
Miami,
Dallas
and
Arizona.
Marill's
work
has
been
published
in
New
American
Paintings,
Wired,
Southwest
Art,
the
New
Times,
the
Wall
Street
Journal,
Modern
Painters,
LA
weekly and
the
LA
Times.
Her
work
is
in
the
collection
of
Todd
Oldham,
Missoni,
Megan
Mullally,
Disney,
The
Hallmark
Collection
and
many
other
exciting
collectors.... Read More

In
addition
to
continual
exhibitions,
Marill’s
practice
includes
developing
large-scale
outdoor
murals,
and
running
a
residency
program
for
international
artists
in
downtown
Phoenix.
Learn
more
about
Carrie
through
our
In
the
Studio
interview!